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Monday
Jul072008

The older blogger

TIRED!!!!

LOBSTER.

WTFIROTFLMAO?

OMGWHTWCT?

.

This is really extreme, duh!!!!

Lot of bull shit to exasperate reader.

What the %$^* is rolling on the floor laughing my @$$ off?

Oh my god What is this world coming to?

Now, for the post!

When I see such abbreviated comments in my inbox like ROTFLMAO, I used to be puzzled. My abbreviations on internetiquette slang was limited to the understanding of OMG, WTF and LOL !

Now there is all these ROFL, ROTFL, ROTFLMAO, ROTFLCONFUSIUS, ROTFLMANMOHANSINGH, etc. etc.

HTGCOSUDTUWTCIAA!

Have to go check out what the comment is all about!

Why? Why?

I am old. It is difficult enough to understand it when spelled out!

PLEASE...

(Please Limit Extensively Abbreviated Spoken English...)

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Reader Comments (10)

oh yes sundar, tell me about it, i find these totally weird too.....although ive seen ROFL being written im umpteen places in so many contexts, i still can't figure what the hell it means! i wish people would explain in sane terms and in plain english! thanks to the 4G world, everything is reducing to bits and pieces of the original!!

July 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterDeepa

ROFL! :-)

Lakshmi

July 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterLV

:) Worth a thought for sure.. The same also applies to the sms spellings. You - U, Please - Pls, Why - Y, There - thr and so on..
Though you can understand these, in the course of time the actual spellings might well be forgotten.
The expansion for PLEASE is very good. Maybe, spoken can be changed to standard.

July 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterBart

Thank God, I am not the only one. For a long time I thought LOL was tamil "lollu". From then on, I've been googling to find the expansion for all these abbreviations.

July 8, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterss

lol!!!

July 8, 2008 | Unregistered Commentertt_giant

ROFL!! :D T!STIC!

Roughly abbreviated goes like - Rolling On Floor Laughing! There! Said Tongue-In-cheek!

July 9, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterBangaloreMom

HMMM ( that was a sound written out)!

Another day, an intern sent me a text message. It took me an hour and another intern to understand what was said !

Such is the time that we live in. Ageing is mandatory

July 9, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterKavi

lol = lots of laughter! ;-)

- s.b. (another dinosaur who prefers words with vowels)

July 9, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymous

Yes, I used to be totally confused myself. Have never tried to go beyond ROFLMAO, which sounds rather uncomfortable if you think about it!

July 11, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterdipali

You share my sentiments although I can't call myself old.

July 11, 2008 | Unregistered Commentermaduraiveeran

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